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Just 28 per cent of couples in marriages or civil partnerships will benefit from the Tory proposals to ‘reward’ marriage in the tax system, according to analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).
Those targeted by a new workfare scheme to be announced by chancellor George Osborne today make up just 5 per cent of JSA claims and 2.5 per cent of the benefits bill.
The Mayor’s free market, help-the-investors strategy will leave London with an inadequate number of homes.
The last thing we need is a housing bubble, this will only make London’s housing crisis worse not better.
The more you learn about Sulivan School, the more irrational and unfair the Tory council’s proposal to close it looks.
The most read articles on Left Foot Forward this week.
As scientific certainty on climate change has solidified, the political will to act has fallen away.
Look Left, our daily political round up, will be going out shortly.
Ed Miliband has seen this Tory-led government pull a fast one on the ‘C2s’ and the ‘strivers’ and has offered something the Tories cannot give.
With Scotland now less than a year away from a defining moment in its history, the policy implications of independence are finally becoming clear.
